The western coast of the Isle of Fungi.
This beach that was no longer pure white was filled with a strange smell. There was the smell of blood, the smell of decay, and everything else. Even the air seemed to be dyed with a layer of strange color by these smells. Under the scorching sun, all of these smells were slowly evaporating.
War was cruel, it would always claim countless lives. While Lin was exploring the underwater cavern, the flames of war here had never stopped for even a moment. The remains of the fungus monsters were piled all over the beach, the first 10 meters of the beach had a large number of craters left behind by bombs. Piles of severed limbs and corpses were squeezed inside these craters, there were also the remains of large creatures scattered around, giving off a strange smell.
Even though they were unstoppable plagues when they were alive, they were still food for the Scavenger Fungi after they died.
There were even more corpses piled up on the beach behind them. Most of them were either covered in spikes or had more than half of their bodies blown up. Their blood had long seeped into the sand, dyeing the entire beach with a layer of strange color.
Some of the fungus monsters that managed to run as far as they could were only about 1 meter away from the Styx River Cannon. They managed to pass through the traps and avoid countless cannon fire, but in the end, they couldn't climb up the sand dune where the Styx River Cannon was and collapsed on the beach.
The frenzied assault of the fungus monsters had caused their corpses to pile up like a mountain. In fact, the number of corpses that could be seen was already quite low, as countless of them had already been devoured by the Scavenger Fungi.
The corpses of the fungus monsters could be said to have covered the entire beach, and the surface of the sea was no exception. The sea had already been dyed red by their blood, causing countless corpses to float on the surface of the water. These corpses no longer had the ability to infect. The fungus monsters had already died from being soaked in seawater. This attracted a large number of fishes and various plankton, which was nothing short of a feast for them.
At the same time, Lin had also begun to clean up the corpses on the beach.
Previously, under the frenzied assault of the fungus monsters, the Scavenger Fungi couldn't quickly devour the blood and remains of the corpses due to the sheer number of enemies, which caused the growth of their mycelium to explosively increase. The mycelium even counterattacked the Scavenger Fungi that were hiding under the sand, relying on the blood of the fungus monsters to grow. The rate of growth was many times faster than normal. At one point, the mycelium even attacked very deep into the sea. But now, the Scavenger Fungi had begun to slowly devour the blood, and the blood outside was slowly drying due to the scorching sun, so the fungus monsters couldn't grow anymore.
The battle didn't last long, but Lin estimated that the number of the fungus monsters had died was at least a few hundred thousand, or even millions. Because there were many smaller fungus monsters, Lin's side....... Lin's side had also suffered........ Countless bombs had been expended, and more than a dozen of the hundred Styx Cannons had been destroyed.
Apart from the two that had been dissolved by the Head of Plagues. The rest of the turrets were destroyed by a creature — the Wyvern.
..... Wyvern Wyvern wyverns......................
They knew how to attack from all sides, sneak around and attack from the back. They could also spray a large amount of dissolving liquid containing bacterial dust and so on. Moreover, the wyverns generally had one thing in common: their carapaces were relatively hard. Now that their corpses were lying on the beach, Lin needed to study them more thoroughly.
. The corpses of the fungus monsters were all over Lin's vision. Everything was quiet. Was the war … over?
Actually, it wasn't over. The war had only been paused.
Some fungus monsters didn't rush to the beach. They … retreated. Lin noticed that they seemed to have suddenly become smarter. The ones at the back didn't continue their mad charge. Instead, they retreated to the sea.
Their current position was right above the group of Scavenger Fungi that was moving at the bottom of the sea.
The group of Scavenger Fungi didn't stop even after Lin cut off the two brains. Instead, they seemed to have sped up …
Why? Perhaps it had a lot to do with the two brains.
Lin didn't communicate with them. In fact, she didn't even have the chance to communicate with them. After she cut them off, they quickly died there.
Why was that? Lin noticed that they had formed a very strange relationship with each other. The battle between the two brains had probably lasted for hundreds of years or even longer. During the battle, their physical forms had changed greatly.
For example, the smaller brain relied heavily on the larger brain for nutrients. It even relied on the water from the smaller brain to obtain oxygen. If it lost the larger brain, it would quickly die.
The larger brain was even simpler. It had a structure similar to a heart inside its body. Not only was it used for blood transfusion, it was also able to continuously send troops to its opponent. Even if it was cut off, it would still continue to send troops. Under normal circumstances, the troops sent by the larger brain would be taken care of by the smaller brain, but the water would circle around the smaller brain before flowing back. However, if the smaller brain was cut off, the smaller brain would lose too much water and die …
Of course, the smaller brain also relied on the water to obtain oxygen and other necessities.
How should he put it? This kind of relationship was too strange. Although they were always fighting, they had formed a strange symbiotic relationship. Both sides were in a state where they couldn't survive if they didn't fight. Even if they kept fighting and one of them won, the winner would die very quickly.
If the smaller brain won, it would quickly run out of nutrients and oxygen. If the larger brain won, it would continue to produce troops. In the end, these troops would pile up in the body because they had nowhere to go. They would constantly squeeze the space in the other organs and grow bigger. Then … it might turn into an art form.
Generally speaking, the smaller brain was more dependent on the water, but the larger brain couldn't think and was crazier, so the chances of it dying were higher.
Lin originally thought that she could save the smaller brain, but she couldn't create a similar large brain quickly enough. The water she delivered to the smaller brain contained oxygen and other nutrients. Even if she provided it with oxygen, the smaller brain would still die.
But even so, Lin managed to keep the smaller brain alive for a while by delivering nutrients. However, Lin found that it couldn't think at all. After the larger brain died, it only felt a sense of 'confusion'.
It didn't know what to do next. It seemed to have lost its purpose in life. Even though it appeared to be very smart when it attacked the larger brain, it now seemed to have become a creature without thoughts …
No matter what signal she sent, it didn't respond, so Lin simply let it die. It wouldn't survive anyway.
However, after these two brains died, Lin discovered the real problem ….
The plague army didn't stop. They were still on the move, and they were even smarter than before. At first, they only attacked madly and occasionally displayed intelligence, but now, they knew to retreat first.
Back then, Lin might have gotten the relationship between the brain and the plague fungus mixed up. The brain had completely lost its ability to think after being in a constant war with another brain, turning it into something no different from a real lunatic.
Therefore, the signal it sent didn't provide intelligence to the plague army, but instead made them go crazy. They would only display intelligence when they didn't receive the brain's signal.
In places further away from the Five Plague Isles, such as the islands near the mainland, the brain's signal probably couldn't reach there, so the fungi there behaved more normally. When Lin removed the fungi from those islands, they didn't show any signs of madness.
So that's why … I should've noticed it earlier. It seems that there are times when the brain has a bad influence. After the brain died, it could be said that the brain's influence on them had stopped.
But what was the reason for these fungi to command them now? Were they the more intelligent fungus monsters? Or the fungus overlords? Or were they acting on their own?
There was no way to know, but at the very least, they were acting much smarter than before.
It was quite interesting, but there were probably only 5% of them left. After the brain's influence ended, would they still attack Lin? Or would they try to run as far away as possible?
But the leader of the plague was still heading this way, so no matter what, this plague had to be destroyed.
Lin began to prepare a group of underwater ambushers to attack the last remnants of the plague army. These fungus monsters were still afraid of water, so it seemed that the 'curse' wouldn't disappear even after the brain died.
Lin first deployed a troop of 'Cleaners' to help the Bacteriophages clean up the corpses on the beach and the nearby sea. A large number of Cleaners crawled out of the island. They were a large troop class that was about five meters long. The teeth in their mouth had a structure that was used to grind meat. It was very suitable for grinding these things.
As too many bombs had been consumed in this war, Lin needed to quickly replenish nutrients. In fact, the remaining resources on the island were already more than enough to deal with the plague fungus, so she had to kill them in the sea.
Lin didn't need to dispatch any other troops, but had Bechymos who had been staying on the island to deal with the leaders of the plague. Bechymos didn't participate in the previous war, so it wasn't consumed at all. Although there were a lot of leaders of the plague, Lin believed that Bechymos alone was enough.
Bechymos' huge body slowly flew to the corpse-strewn beach …
It was finally going to end. The plague would be completely wiped out in this war!
Bechymos looked at the sea in the distance and suddenly accelerated towards it!
Suddenly, a strange noise made Bechymos stop. Lin saw a large number of bubbles rising from the surface of the water. There were so many of them that the floating corpses around them were pushed away. Floating astronomy.
You've already exceeded your reading limit for today. If you want to read more, please log in.
Login
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
